Apple iPod and iPhone News for August-29-08
High-profile artists have forgone putting their albums on the iTunes Store lately as they complain of an unfair distribution system that only helps to reduce album sales. Is cherry-picking only hot singles a trend with staying power, or can full-album sales make a comeback?
Album-loving artists blame iTunes for changed music tastes
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In a new company filing discovered by AppleInsider, iPhone maker Apple Inc. illustrates a number of techniques that would pave the way for tablet Macs that display a near full-sized multi-touch keyboard and run an undiluted version of the Mac OS X operating system.
Apple details next-gen multi-touch techniques for tablet Mac
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The most recent incident of an application being pulled though is raising the specter of Apple censorship; or at least applying their own moral judgement of whether an application can be listed. Such is the case of Infurious Comics and their Comic Reader that was meant for easier distribution and reading of web comics on the iPhone.
Does Apple Really Want To Be An Internet Censor?
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Forget about buying cheap, tacky plastic add-ons to mod the iPhone’s camera. Flickr-er Daniel Forsythe instead used his knowledge of cellphone camera lenses to make this quick-and-dirty manual focus hack for the iPhone.
Hack Turns iPhone into Macro Camera
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The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process.
Bloomberg Accidentally Publishes Steve Jobs Obituary
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“Steve made zero technical contributions. He’s not a technical person, so sort of his main contribution was setting the goal, setting a very high goal, and then being really passionate about exceeding the expectations, you know just trying to make every single conceivable aspect of the product as brilliant and creative and wonderful as possible.”
Mac Designer Andy Hertzfeld Looks Back at 25 Years of Mac
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The latest installment in the LEGO Thing franchise — LEGO Batman — could be heading to the iPhone, reports Pocket Gamer.There have been earlier Java midlet versions of LEGO games – notably Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, but it would be nice to think that theiPhone would get a proper conversion..
Lego Batman Coming To iPhone?
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There has been a lot of speculation recently about an impending update to iTunes. Version 8.0 is supposed to finally bring a recommendation engine to the digital media player application. While that’s interesting from a music discovery perspective, it is even more interesting to consider what this could mean in terms of an iTunes+iPhone experience.
The Case for an Apple iNetwork: Welcome to the Social
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